And if this had been done by GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Mazda, etc., people would be cheering the guy on and yelling shit at the other auto companies. Fanboyism run amok.
There was never a law that modems had to work. More or less min speeds. Where'd you get that from?
Here in Canada, the CRTC and Industry Canada required a minimum of 9600 baud on telephone lines from all of the providers of POTS. There was also a few states(I remember Indiana had a law on the books), that also required 9600 baud to be a minimum attainable speed. In the case for Canada, it was because the government had moved a lot of stuff over to dial-up services for their service offices. I'd have to dig up the actual regulations and laws though, I haven't looked at them in over 20 years.
I cannot say this strongly enough. DO NOT DOWNMOD JUST BECAUSE YOU DISAGREE!
The problem is there are too many people who are intellectual cowards, and would rather mod something contrary to their opinion as -1/whatever vs disagreeing with the person and in turn getting into a discussion over something. Win or lose, you're more likely to learn something instead of remaining in your ideological hugbox.
I'm sure what they promise in the fine print is to do their best to try and deliver you atleast some fraction of the advertised bandwidth some of the time.
For the most part yep. There may be a minimum required speed in some places, but overall there isn't anything in law that actually says that they "have to" unlike the old dial-up days, where phone lines had to maintain a minimum of 2400 baud, then 9600 baud and later 14.4k. The law is way behind on this stuff, then again the law was way behind roughly 12 years in the case of dial-up when the minimum requirements were introduced into either law/consumer protection codes/industry requirement codes/etc. Give it another 4-5 years and you'll probably start seeing something happen.
Declined ballots are counted in Canada, you can even request a count for declined from Elections Canada. In Federal elections all counts are done by hand, some provinces use a machine to quick scan the ballot but also do a hand count as well.
H.Clinton reminds me of Kathleen Wynne here in Ontario. Government is involved in 15 or so scandals, blew a billion dollars on a gas plant that was scrapped, being investigated by the OPP(for Americans that's the equivalent of state police) for destruction of data relating to it, 3 or so other scandals that have led to the death of people...and she got elected. Then again, Ontario is very much like So. Cal., lots of city folks in highly dense urban areas and the other 2m people living in the province live outside of it.
You'd be surprised at how well plastic holds up when it's made to take the sun all the time. In terms of body panels, those very first Saturns(made by GM) are 26-27 years old now. They used plastic composite body panels. Those interior panels? Also held up very well. If I have one complaint, it's like many cars and their roof liner the foam is actually what fails as the mating surface.
Oh sweet child how little do you know. My neurologist(here in Canada) these days primarily handles patients from India, and has a secretary that natively speaks Hindi. Even her secretary can't understand them.
If a company sold locks that couldn't be locked or were too trivially pickable, and advertised them as locks, you can guarantee there would be (and historically has been) more or less equivalent blowback.
Electronic locks used on hotels? Or the programmable key locks that a lot of people use on their house? You can still bust them open with $50 of off the shelf hardware. That's been going on for 4 or 5 years now, and the amount of blowback has been minimal.
How the hell can I trust Mozilla and Firefox after this debacle?
You can't, like many other people can't trust them either. And that's one of the continuing reasons that their market share is declining. Though one of the ex-CEO's chased off by regressive whiners over their private decisions, is making a new browser that looks good. Though we'll have to see if that's the case in a few months or not. Source is here of course.
Trusting mediamatters on something is like trusting pravda to have no propaganda. And mediamatters has a long history of massaging legitimate stats in order to paint an agenda.
Everyone loves Star Wars: The flamethrower! Adults because you can use on anything, from gopher holes to door-to-door salesmen at 8am on a Sunday. Kids, because who doesn't want to make human torches!
No, considering you have idiots in charge of your government and police. Especially very special kinds of idiots like the Metro Police Chief saying who believes that CCTV is the solution to crime problems. Instead of having more police officers out there, and doing random patrols.
If your country is anything like Canada(in the winter season right now), around the time the diesel scandal broke it was also the same time that winter blends for fuel were being changed over to. Seeing 15% as a drop is within the blend change, to know for sure you'll have to wait until spring.
I know you were probably just trying to make a point vis-a-vis Iran and nukes, but it's just that I am tired of my country being dragged in for comparisons like the one you did.
You know the the difference between Iran and India is? Nothing, they both broke the NPT.
Maybe they should hang up the anti-nuke FUD and start building new nuclear power plants. Canada could even sell them some Gen3/3.5 or 4 if they're that desperate.
Perhaps, but enriched fuel is HARD to make. The technology is quite.. finicky and specialized and not available to you and me.
Reminder that India became a nuclear power thanks to Canada, and them using "peaceful reactors" to produce nuclear weapons. The world was also watching when India decided to give a big-ol-fuck you as well.
During election time, if Israel doesn't like it, then expect every candidate to dance for Israeli money.
Well Israel won't like it, Qatar won't like it, Saudi Arabia won't like it. And you can bet that ever since Israel and Saudi Arabia signed a treaty basically becoming a military co-pact against Iran adhering and only if they prove it and they were lifted gradually, you can bet that shit will hit the fan.
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Great, you're meeting one now. Most people call us cultural libertarians though.
Don't worry, you've already got them on the left. They're called progressives and SJW's.
And if this had been done by GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Mazda, etc., people would be cheering the guy on and yelling shit at the other auto companies. Fanboyism run amok.
There was never a law that modems had to work. More or less min speeds. Where'd you get that from?
Here in Canada, the CRTC and Industry Canada required a minimum of 9600 baud on telephone lines from all of the providers of POTS. There was also a few states(I remember Indiana had a law on the books), that also required 9600 baud to be a minimum attainable speed. In the case for Canada, it was because the government had moved a lot of stuff over to dial-up services for their service offices. I'd have to dig up the actual regulations and laws though, I haven't looked at them in over 20 years.
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I cannot say this strongly enough. DO NOT DOWNMOD JUST BECAUSE YOU DISAGREE!
The problem is there are too many people who are intellectual cowards, and would rather mod something contrary to their opinion as -1/whatever vs disagreeing with the person and in turn getting into a discussion over something. Win or lose, you're more likely to learn something instead of remaining in your ideological hugbox.
I'm sure what they promise in the fine print is to do their best to try and deliver you atleast some fraction of the advertised bandwidth some of the time.
For the most part yep. There may be a minimum required speed in some places, but overall there isn't anything in law that actually says that they "have to" unlike the old dial-up days, where phone lines had to maintain a minimum of 2400 baud, then 9600 baud and later 14.4k. The law is way behind on this stuff, then again the law was way behind roughly 12 years in the case of dial-up when the minimum requirements were introduced into either law/consumer protection codes/industry requirement codes/etc. Give it another 4-5 years and you'll probably start seeing something happen.
Declined ballots are counted in Canada, you can even request a count for declined from Elections Canada. In Federal elections all counts are done by hand, some provinces use a machine to quick scan the ballot but also do a hand count as well.
Same as the old overlords? No clue about history, or that pissing in people's cornflakes is a bad idea.
Don't worry that'll change. Especially after Merkel went to FB and said to censor anything to do with migrants.
Well, I'm expecting the head of the FBI to resign if the DOJ doesn't press charges.
H.Clinton reminds me of Kathleen Wynne here in Ontario. Government is involved in 15 or so scandals, blew a billion dollars on a gas plant that was scrapped, being investigated by the OPP(for Americans that's the equivalent of state police) for destruction of data relating to it, 3 or so other scandals that have led to the death of people...and she got elected. Then again, Ontario is very much like So. Cal., lots of city folks in highly dense urban areas and the other 2m people living in the province live outside of it.
You'd be surprised at how well plastic holds up when it's made to take the sun all the time. In terms of body panels, those very first Saturns(made by GM) are 26-27 years old now. They used plastic composite body panels. Those interior panels? Also held up very well. If I have one complaint, it's like many cars and their roof liner the foam is actually what fails as the mating surface.
Oh sweet child how little do you know. My neurologist(here in Canada) these days primarily handles patients from India, and has a secretary that natively speaks Hindi. Even her secretary can't understand them.
If a company sold locks that couldn't be locked or were too trivially pickable, and advertised them as locks, you can guarantee there would be (and historically has been) more or less equivalent blowback.
Electronic locks used on hotels? Or the programmable key locks that a lot of people use on their house? You can still bust them open with $50 of off the shelf hardware. That's been going on for 4 or 5 years now, and the amount of blowback has been minimal.
How the hell can I trust Mozilla and Firefox after this debacle?
You can't, like many other people can't trust them either. And that's one of the continuing reasons that their market share is declining. Though one of the ex-CEO's chased off by regressive whiners over their private decisions, is making a new browser that looks good. Though we'll have to see if that's the case in a few months or not. Source is here of course.
Trusting mediamatters on something is like trusting pravda to have no propaganda. And mediamatters has a long history of massaging legitimate stats in order to paint an agenda.
Star Wars: The flamethrower!
The kids love this one.
Everyone loves Star Wars: The flamethrower! Adults because you can use on anything, from gopher holes to door-to-door salesmen at 8am on a Sunday. Kids, because who doesn't want to make human torches!
When will this meme ever die?
No, considering you have idiots in charge of your government and police. Especially very special kinds of idiots like the Metro Police Chief saying who believes that CCTV is the solution to crime problems. Instead of having more police officers out there, and doing random patrols.
If your country is anything like Canada(in the winter season right now), around the time the diesel scandal broke it was also the same time that winter blends for fuel were being changed over to. Seeing 15% as a drop is within the blend change, to know for sure you'll have to wait until spring.
I know you were probably just trying to make a point vis-a-vis Iran and nukes, but it's just that I am tired of my country being dragged in for comparisons like the one you did.
You know the the difference between Iran and India is? Nothing, they both broke the NPT.
Not being American, and living in Canada I already know what this is like. And still, somehow we manage to get our shit together most of the time.
Maybe they should hang up the anti-nuke FUD and start building new nuclear power plants. Canada could even sell them some Gen3/3.5 or 4 if they're that desperate.
Multiverse - nice fantasy. Anything derived from that idea is itself a fantasy.
We all have our fantasies. Mine I write about with words and others describe theirs with math. Both types remain fantasies.
Laser weapons, and talking to computers was also a fantasy...that was only 60 years ago.
Perhaps, but enriched fuel is HARD to make. The technology is quite.. finicky and specialized and not available to you and me.
Reminder that India became a nuclear power thanks to Canada, and them using "peaceful reactors" to produce nuclear weapons. The world was also watching when India decided to give a big-ol-fuck you as well.
During election time, if Israel doesn't like it, then expect every candidate to dance for Israeli money.
Well Israel won't like it, Qatar won't like it, Saudi Arabia won't like it. And you can bet that ever since Israel and Saudi Arabia signed a treaty basically becoming a military co-pact against Iran adhering and only if they prove it and they were lifted gradually, you can bet that shit will hit the fan.